Internment of Japanese Canadians
In 1941 there were 23,000 Japanese Canadians living in Canada
22,000 in B.C
War Measures Act relocated all Japanese Canadians to internment camps away from the West Coast
Internment began in December 1941, following the attack by carrier-borne forces of Imperial Japan on American naval and army facilities at Pearl Harbor. Speculation of sabotage and espionage, although the RCMP and defence department lacked proof.
All detained without trial until the end of the war 1943 - Custodian of Enemy Property allowed all Japanese possessions and properties to be sold
After the war, the government offered two options : be deported back to Japan or be relocated east of the Rocky Mountains but in 1947 this ruling is overturned
Government didn't apologize until 1988 and finally paid 21,000 dollars in compensations each person and offered to restore anyone's Canadian Citizenship who had lost it.
22,000 in B.C
War Measures Act relocated all Japanese Canadians to internment camps away from the West Coast
Internment began in December 1941, following the attack by carrier-borne forces of Imperial Japan on American naval and army facilities at Pearl Harbor. Speculation of sabotage and espionage, although the RCMP and defence department lacked proof.
All detained without trial until the end of the war 1943 - Custodian of Enemy Property allowed all Japanese possessions and properties to be sold
After the war, the government offered two options : be deported back to Japan or be relocated east of the Rocky Mountains but in 1947 this ruling is overturned
Government didn't apologize until 1988 and finally paid 21,000 dollars in compensations each person and offered to restore anyone's Canadian Citizenship who had lost it.
Summary
Because the Canadians were scared there were going to be Japanese Canadian spies they forced all Japanese to live in internment camps until the end of the war, during which they sold of all the Japanese people's property. Many years later the Canadian government paid compensations to person and gave all the people, who had lost their Canadian Citizenship, back.
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